long before

基本解釋

He is someone I had my eye on long before he went there.
很久以前，在他加盟曼城之前他就是我注意的對象了。
He was right about me being an atheist, but I was an atheist long before I was any kind of "scientist".
他是正確的，我確實是無神論者，但我早在成為任何種類的“科學家”之前，就已經(jīng)是一位無神論者了。
You may have thought you decided whether to have tea or coffee this morning, for example, but the decision may have been made long before you were aware of it.
舉例說，你可能認為今天早晨是你做出喝茶或是喝咖啡的決定，但實際上這個決定在你意識到之前很久可能就已經(jīng)確定。

The state is named after an American Indian tribe a recognition of the groups that came long before the Pilgrims.
Long before Milton had begun to tackle the problem, Christians had for centuries, for millennia, puzzled over the logical inconsistency between these two concepts.
早在彌爾頓應對這個問題之前，基督教徒們就已經(jīng)花了成百上千年，為這兩個概念之間邏輯上的前后矛盾感到困惑。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
Behaviorism is a school of thought that was there long before Skinner, championed by psychologists like John Watson, for instance.
行為主義學派,遠在斯金納提出他的理論之前就已經(jīng)存在，受到了眾多心理學家的擁護,比如約翰·華生。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學導論課程節(jié)選

In 1954, long before there was a Lipper or a Morningstar, the magazine published its first performance ranking.
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